Abjection Quote by Christopher Hitchens

The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

— Guillermo del Toro

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory.

— Bahá'u'lláh

“Equipped as he is by his very nature for worship, man cannot not worship ; and if his outlook is cut off from the…

— Martin Lings

Worship is admiration becoming adoration.

— Matt Papa

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute…

— Samuel Johnson

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent…

— Dan B. Allender

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

— Rumi

“If you took some North Korean songs and replaced Kim Il Sung with God or Jesus it would sound exactly like a Christian hymn.”

— Mike Kim

Think of the egotism of a man who believes that an infinite being wants his praise!

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Praise is the approaching God for defeating the devil and his agents. Praise reduces rulers to nothing and makes the earth's leaders insignificant!!”

— Ademola Adejumo

Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable…

— Thomas Merton